# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/dava-sobel
# Generated: 2026-08-13T01:18:24.167Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/dava-sobel"
name: "Dava Sobel"
slug: "dava-sobel"
description: "Dava Sobel is an American writer of popular expositions of scientific topics. Her books include Longitude, about English clockmaker John Harrison; Galileo's Daughter, about Galileo's daughter Maria Celeste; and The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars about the Harvard Computers."
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1947-06-15"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump